Children's clothing
Children's clothing is clothing for children who have not yet grown to full height. Grandma bait is a retail industry term for expensive children's clothing.[1]
Children's clothing is often more casual than adult clothing, fit for play and rest. Hosiery is commonly used.
Sizes
American sizes for baby clothes are usually based on the child's weight. European sizes are usually based on the child's height. These may be expressed as an estimated age of the child, e.g., size 6 months (or 3–6 months) is expected to fit a child 61 to 67 centimetres (24 to 26 in) in height and 5.7 to 7.5 kilograms (13 to 17 lb) in weight.[2]
Children's clothing and gender
More recently gender-specific children's clothing has become a contentious issue. According to some feminist thinkers, children's clothing has become increasingly segregated, with young girls especially being expected to wear pink. Peggy Orenstein writes in her book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, that pink-coloured and princess-themed clothes are almost ubiquitous for young girls in shops in America. She sees this as problematic because it limits girls to not only one colour, but also to one spectrum of experience, and it "firmly fuses girls' identity to appearance."[3] According to Historian Jo B. Paoletti, pink and blue only became associated with girls and boys respectively from the 1940s onwards.[4][5]
In reaction to this situation, a campaign group Pinkstinks was formed in the UK in 2008[6] to raise awareness of what they claim is damage caused by gender stereotyping of children.[7] Further, clothing companies have started to sell clothes that are unisex or gender-neutral, such as Swedish companies Polarn O. Pyret,[8] while others have been founded specifically to offer such items, such as Tootsa MacGinty.[9][10]
See also
References
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- ↑ Size chart from Carter’s and OshKosh B’gosh
- ↑ Orenstein, Peggy Cinderella Ate My Daughter Harper Paperbacks, 2011, p.34
- ↑ Maglaty, Jeanne (April 8, 2011) When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? smithsonianmag.com
- ↑ Paoletti, Jo Barraclough Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America Indiana University Press, 2012
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- ↑ Wade, Lisa (Aug 5, 2010) Why Not Gender Neutral Clothes thesocietypages.org
- ↑ (7 February 2012) Are we letting our little girls down by dressing them in pink? Wales Online
- ↑ (30 June 2011) Unisex fashion: Hey boy, hey girl The Independent
External links
- Fashion Plates of 19th & 20th Century Children's Clothing from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
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